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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-07-04
The ten storey building under construction for the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine to be increased to form a 16 storey building
- The Cabinet approval was granted to award the contract to the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau to construct a 10 storey building for the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine on design and built basis at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,896.55 million, and the construction work is presently, underway. As the proposed building is insufficient to accommodate all the divisions functioning under the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, the proposal made by Hon. (Dr.) Rajitha Senaratne, the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, to add 6 more storeys to make it a 16 storey building and thereby to increase the sum of the cost estimate accordingly, from Rs.3,896.55 million up to Rs5,979.29 million and to handover the construction work on the design and built basis as agreed upon earlier, to the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau was approved by the Cabinet.